Mountain Region Donor Services is located in Johnson City, Tennessee and serves 8 counties in northeastern Tennessee and 8 counties in southwestern Virginia. MRDS provides organ and tissue recovery services to 25 area hospitals and strives to increase awareness about the critical need for organ and tissue donors through public and professional education.
110 KLM Drive, Suite 2
Gray, TN 37615
Phone: 423-915-0808 (local)
Phone: 888-562-3774 (toll-free)
Email: Kim Kennedy (kkennedy@dcids.org)
The Chattanooga Donor Services serves 14 counties in southeastern Tennessee. They include Bledsoe, Bradley, Coffee, Franklin, Grundy, Hamilton, Marion, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Moore, Polk, Rhea and Sequatchie Counties
TDS-Chattanooga’s critical care RN organ recovery coordinators provide organ and tissue recovery services to 25 area hospitals. Hospital services staff provide professional education to medical personnel and develops donation policies and procedures for our hospital partners. Our public education staff strives to increase awareness about the critical need for organ and tissue donors through their community services. Our physician directors help us build cooperative relationships with area physicians who are integral to the donation process.
Together, the TDS-Chattanooga staff is dedicated to maximizing the quality and quantity of donated organs and tissues that we recover for the 96,000-plus people on the waiting list for lifesaving transplants. Above all, we are committed to caring for the donor families who make the gift of life possible.
651 E. Fourth Street, Suite 402
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Phone: 423-756-5736 (local)
Email: Dawn Benjamin (dbenjamin@dcids.org)
TDS - Knoxville serves 19 counties, which consist of approximately 1 million people. Organ Recovery Coordinators are available 24 hrs/day - 7 days/week - 365 days/year.
TDS - Knoxville also monitors 27 hospitals in their service area. Knoxville organ recovery coordinators are critical care personnel whose duties include evaluating a potential organ donor, seeking consent from the next of kin after brain death has been established, finding a proper recipient(s) through a national computerized network, and coordinating the recovery of organs and facilitating the transplantation.
7015 Middlebrook Pike
Knoxville, TN 37909
Phone: 865-588-1031 (local)
Email: Lisa Clark (lclark@dcids.org), Margaret Madden (mmadden@dcids.org) and Billy Jarvis (bjarvis@dcids.org)
The TDS-Nashville office is the central headquarters for Tennessee Donor Services. TDS Nashville/Jackson serves 44 counties in middle Tennessee, including Davidson county and the city of Nashville. TDS also serves 11 counties in the Jackson, TN area. Total service area population is approximately 1.5 million.
1600 Hayes Street, Suite 300
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: 615-234-5251 (local)
Phone: 888-234-4440 (toll-free)
Email: Jennifer Griffith (jgriffith@dcids.org), Misty Armour (marmour@dcids.org) and Janet Jarrard (jjarrard@dcids.org) |
